The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star
That’s not a young crescent Moonposing behind cathedral towers after sunset.It’s Venus in a crescent phase.About 40 million kilometers away andabout 2 percentilluminated bysunlight, it was captured with camera and telephoto lens in this seriesof exposures as it set in western skies on January 1 from Veszprem,Hungary.The bright celestial beacon was languishing in the eveningtwilight, its days as theEvening Starcoming to a close as 2022 began.
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